Welcome to our Parish Blog

Welcome to our Parish Blog. This blog will be an extension of our "Announcements" column on the front page, which must be kept short due to the physical layout restrictions. There is plenty of room here to "ramble on". Some of the names we considered were "Old and New", which might have been confused with a Bible blog, and "Duly Noted", which is too dry and sounds too dull!

So we're just going to call it the "St. John's Parish Blog".

Most of the entries will just document the many small changes, challenges, chores, and accomplishments which make up our daily life as a small town Episcopal parish in the Diocese of Arkansas. We hope you will check this section on every visit.

Please let us know what you think, leave a comment!

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03-27-2014 at 6:01 AM

Grace Henderson

The United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Church has raised several million dollars this year, every single penny of which will go to grants to improve the lives of people through the Episcopal Communion across the world. Most of the grants will help people who themselves may not belong to an Episcopal Church but who most certainly are children of God. Along with 12 others from across the United States, I am on the National UTO Board and represent nine states. What a blessing this has been to me this past week as I, along with other board members, have begun reading these dozens of grant requests. The grant requests are for after school programs at various churches or center to keep children playing ping pong or basketball or learning to use computers rather than being pursued for gang membership; or for food pantries in the big city ghettoes; or for help with free medicals for indigenous folk who live more than 100 miles from a doctor. It is humbling to be able to help. Thank you, St. John's folk, for contributing nearly $1,000 in the past twelve months to give a hand to God's hildren.